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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10632, 3 July 1920, Page 6

A Press Association cable message reports the arrival at Sydney of the Joan Craig from .Now Zealand. The cost of chartering s.s. Prinzessin for the transport of New Zealanders stranded in Sydney owing tq the influenza epidemic, was £6500. "Purchase and upkeep of motor-car for High Commissioner, £682 Os lOd,” is an item which appears in the Public Accounts under the heading of unauthorised expenditure. Otautau, a small centre of a timher and farming district in Southland, has raised voluntarily nearly £7OO for the erection of a local soldiers’ memorial. . Payment for their services as editors of volumes of ‘‘New Zealand History of the War” are being made by the Government as follows:—Major T. Waite £250, Major A. H. Wilkie £250 and Colonel H. Stewart £250. Cr .I. ,a to* the extent, of £3 has Ue.i paid by the Government tq the estate of the late Gustavo Schultz for the loss of his opera glasses while he was a prisoner of war in the custody of the Defence Department. A Press 'Association message from Rotorua states that in tho Magistrate’s Court yesterday the charge against James Dennis Foley of stealing a cash-box containing £ll7 cash and cheques from tho office of Johnson end Cooper, auctioneers, was dismissed.

The expenses of the Minors’ Federation delegates attending the conference between the Government, the coal mine-owners, and the federation, amounted to £371 12s 3d. Tin's amount is being paid by the Govern' ment, and is provided for under unauthorised expenditure. In full settlement of the claim foi compensation under the Workers' Compensation Act in respect of the death of Constable H. Spence, who died as the result of injuries received in the execution of his duty in July last, tho Government has provided a sum of £2lO 10s.